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Adoption Today’s Daily Prompt: Pick a random word and do Google image search on it. Check out the eleventh picture it brings up. Write about whatever that image brings to mind. The eleventh picture Google images brought up perfectly tells a story in imagery that I told with words in my book Nine Year…
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No book that I have read about any person’s life has most reminded me of Job and Job’s character amid devastation than the book From Depths We Rise by Sarah Rodriguez. Just launched by Shiloh Press, Barbour Publishing, her “Journey of Beauty from Ashes” will strengthen your faith and challenge you to choose joy – even in the midst of the storm. “For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole.” (Job 5:18–NKJV). “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before him.” (Job 13:15 NKJV).
“God has never let me down,” says Jen Bricker in her new book Everything is Possible. Anytime I become discouraged or faced with an overwhelming trial, all I have to do is look back through my life to see how He has brought me through countless trials and tribulations…
5. She’s turning 90 years old soon and daily uses a computer, an IPad, and a smart phone. 4. She uses Facebook to keep up with all her children, grand-children, great grandchildren, grand-nieces (me), and even my children and grandchildren (and remembers all of their names). 3. She Skypes with me when I’m living…
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nspired by the poem “I Like You” by Sandol Stoddard Warburg, I wrote this poem collaborating with my daughter, told as if she were speaking to me. After reading it together, she hugged me and said the part that is now the last stanza of this poem. My high-school English teacher introduced me to the poem “I Like You,” which is now available as a book.
Many well-meaning people ask adoptive mothers if the child who does not resemble them is their “real” child. From time-to-time an adopted child will even say to his/her mother, “You’re not my REAL Mother!” By real both mean biological. With Mother’s Day weekend approaching, my daughter and I chose fun books from the library on mothers. I chose to review one of them–the one about adoptive mothers. You’re Not My REAL Mother! by Molly Friedrich
always knew that watching television was a great motivator for my daughter, but what I didn’t know is that I had been going about it the wrong way. After reading the book Have a New Kid by Friday, I combined the principles I learned from that book with the principles I learned from Parenting With Love and Logic, and came up with an idea.
Jessie suffered from Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and does an excellent job of helping readers get inside the head of a child who has suffered RAD. Parents or foster-carers or teachers who work with kids who are or have been in foster care or orphanages will benefit from reading this book. He addresses many issues, such as: abandonment, grief, longing for a parent to return, reuniting with biological parents, anger, manipulation, bedwetting, lying, stealing, fear, loneliness, cutting, destroying things, and so much more.
Like most people today, I greatly appreciate being able to send messages quickly by text, email, Facebook, Skype, etc. And, of course, I love publishing on blogs. But, a recent packet in the mail reminded me of something very special–handwritten letters. My dad recently helped my grandmother (who turns 90 this year) transition into an…
Review by: Delana H. Stewart, Author of Nine Year Pregnancy I just love Aha moments. Moments when you see the light bulb go on in your child’s eyes. Moments when you can almost reach out and touch a connection being made. Tonight my daughter and I snuggled on the sofa and read books to each…
Heart Tears is a poem about parenting a difficult child and relating to God in his parenting of us as His children.
I am reading the book Choosing to SEE by Mary Beth Chapman, wife of award-winning singer/songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman. After having written our adoption journey, Nine Year Pregnancy, I thought it would be nice to read the journeys of others. One of the things that really resonates with me about Mary Beth’s journey is the daily reality of clinging to God for direction, wisdom, and hope each step of the way.
Older Adoptees. During her first year with us, she struggled with being in any room of the house by herself. Even if I just needed to go get clothes out of the dryer, she would leave what she was doing and follow me. That year, we used a timer a lot.
This is the title of my book on our adoption journey! It is also a book about perseverance and persisting in prayer. For more details, visit– http://nineyearpregnancy.wordpress.com To purchase a book to journal your adoption story (or to give as a gift) click here to order. ****************************************************************************** Adoption Videos on YouTube Click here to view Delana’s…
A poem written from by an adoptive mom about her child’s empty place inside for the birthmother (or tummy mommy).
Everywhere you read, everywhere you blog you see it–NaNoWriMo. That is short for National Novel Writing Month. Since this is the first year that I have heard about it, I Googled it and found that it began in 1999, according to Wikipedia. Before NaNoWriMo, NaAdMo claimed November. What is NaAdMo? It is National Adoption Month.…
Sometimes people are like prickly porcupines. In hugging or helping them you may get hurt in the process. But, God loves us even when WE are the prickly porcupine. We need to love our spouses, children, siblings, parents, friends, neighbors even when they are prickly porcupines. Hugging prickly people brings healing. Have you hugged a…
One of the books that helped me tremendously on our decade-long journey of adoption was The Journey of Desire by John Eldredge. Here is one of my favorite quotes from that book: “We all know the dilemma of desire, how awful it feels to open our hearts to joy, only to have grief come in.…
Sunday morning in the weekend Bible study class I attend, we have been reading and discussing Henry and Richard Blackaby’s book: Fresh Encounter. This week we talked a lot about faith and what it means. On the way home from church, the Christian radio station we were listening to (KSBJ) aired a message from Pastor…
Somewhere between middle school and grown-up life, someone peeled me off the wallpaper and I began to bloom. My wild and crazy husband of 30 years deserves much credit for the person I’ve become. He also deserves praise for encouraging me (even while having 3 sons in high school and being in the midst of…
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